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IBM WebSphere Portal

IBM WebSphere Portal provides an extensible framework that allows the end user to interact with enterprise applications, people, content, and processes. They can personalize and organize their own view of the portal, manage their own profiles, and publish and share documents. WebSphere Portal provides additional services such as single sign-on (SSO), security, credential vault, directory services, document management, Web content management, personalization, search, collaboration, search and taxonomy, support for mobile devices, accessibility support, internationalization, e-learning, integration to applications, and site analytics. Clients can further extend the portal solution to provide host integration and e-commerce.

WebSphere Portal allows you to plug in new features or extensions using portlets. In the same way that a servlet is an application within a Web server, a portlet is an application within WebSphere Portal. Developing portlets is the most important task when providing a portal that functions as the user's interface to information and tasks.

Portlets are an encapsulation of content and functionality. They are reusable components that combine Web-based content, application functionality, and access to resources. Portlets are assembled into portal pages that, in turn, make up a portal implementation.

Portal solutions such as IBM WebSphere Portal are proven to shorten the development time. Pre-built adapters and connectors are available so that customers can leverage on the company's existing investment by integrating with the existing legacy systems without re-inventing the wheel.

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